Royals *** Official 2019 Kansas City Royals Repository *** - Page 152

Get the offseason thread out of here. It's on!

Opening day roster:

Catchers (2): Cam Gallagher, Martin Maldonado

Infielders (7): Hunter Dozier, Lucas Duda, Whit Merrifield, Adalberto Mondesi, Ryan O’Hearn, Chris Owings, Frank Schwindel

Outfielders (4): Alex Gordon, Terrance Gore, Billy Hamilton, Jorge Soler

Starting pitchers (3): Jakob Junis, Brad Keller, Jorge Lopez

Relief pitchers (9): Scott Barlow, Brad Boxberger, Jake Diekman, Chris Ellis, Tim Hill, Ian Kennedy, Kevin McCarthy, Wily Peralta, Kyle Zimmer

Injured list: Danny Duffy, Brian Flynn, Jesse Hahn, Salvador Perez

Suspended: Eric Skoglund
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Originally Posted by FringeNC:
Both Starling and O'Hearn have two HRs early tonight. I'd rather see them play compared to Hamilton and Duda.

Yosted
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Originally Posted by Al Bundy:
Getting owned by a completely average pitcher.

Mike Clevinger is not average. He’s one of the top 20-30 starters in baseball.

Originally Posted by siberian khatru:
Bubba had been in his first extended slump of the season before going 6 for his last 12 going into tonight.

So if you were waiting to see how he responded to a cold spell ...

Yes. Hopefully a sign he made an adjustment and is turning it around.
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Originally Posted by dlphg9:
No criticism will be allowed of Ned Yost or Dayton Moore in this thread.

That’s bullshit and you know it.

I think you’d enjoy baseball a little more if you approached fandom less emotional on the day-to-day and looking big picture instead s
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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
Mike Clevinger is not average. He’s one of the top 20-30 in baseball.

Great pitching from Cleveland last night. Lots of pitches for strikes that were on the edges of the strike zone.
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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
That’s bullshit and you know it.

I think you’d enjoy baseball a little more if you approached fandom less emotional on the day-to-day and looking big picture instead s

I do look at the big picture and based on this organizations track record of developing starting pitching, I'd say things look pretty bleak.
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Originally Posted by dlphg9:
I do look at the big picture and based on this organizations track record of developing starting pitching, I'd say things look pretty bleak.

It has been weak.

I’m encouraged by the shift from spending premium picks on projectable HS arms to instead focusing on JUCO and college arms. AA, A+ and A are littered with interesting arms now (almost all college or JuCO guys).

Singer
Kowar
Lynch
Bubic
Cox
Heasely
Haake
Bowlan
Tillo
Steele
Morel
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Also: Kyle Isbel is back. Hit a HR and a 2B last night.

He had his hammate bone removed this year. That often saps power.
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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
Also: Kyle Isbel is back. Hit a HR and a 2B last night.

He had his hammate bone removed this year. That often saps power.

Wow they did that in offseason or in season?
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Not sure about the infield being pulled in to get that inning going there. It is fun watching these players get their shit pushed in though.
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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
It has been weak.

I’m encouraged by the shift from spending premium picks on projectable HS arms to instead focusing on JUCO and college arms. AA, A+ and A are littered with interesting arms now (almost all college or JuCO guys).

Singer
Kowar
Lynch
Bubic
Cox
Heasely
Haake
Bowlan
Tillo
Steele
Morel

Hopefully some of the minor league bats can get hot and we can trade them for a proven arm or something.
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Originally Posted by BWillie:
Wow they did that in offseason or in season?

In-season. I’ve never heard of that before. Usually it is a 12-18 month injury.
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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
In-season. I’ve never heard of that before. Usually it is a 12-18 month injury.

Holy shit, so the guy had this surgery earlier in April and is already back 3 months after it was done? So a surgery that has a year to year and a half recovery time was cut to 3 months? That's like having TJ surgery and coming back in 3 months. That seems insane.
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I looked this up, apparently Giancarlo Stanton had it done also. Supposedly removal of a part of the bone is considered favorable for an athlete because it shortens recovery time. You don't have to wait for the bone to heal to rehab just the incision.
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